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LOUIS October 12, 1998 The University of Missouri-St. Louis Vol. 32 Issue 932 Student court searches for new members BY J aSH RENAUD special to the Current Judge shortage may slow ticket appeal process The Student Court has lost members, said Chief Justice Steve Bartok, and it could slow want something to put on their resume, or ities such as hearing grievances between stu­ "I know [Bartok] has been receiving pres­ the flow of traffic ticket appeals to a crawl. people who bite off more than they can dent organizations, hearing grievances sure from individuals who have received tick­ .. II According to the UM - St. Louis Student chew." against student organizations from individu­ ets and appealed them," said Student Services Association Constitution, the Student Court Bartok said some members neglected to als, interpreting the Constitution, and deal­ Coordinator Don McCarty. "Because of the should be composed of five active members let him know what was going on. ing with student organizations that have had lack of Court members, it's a slower process. and two alternates. The Court had five active "They don't bother to say they have a their funding frozen. I think he is doing a good job with the members and one alternate at the Student problem. I am tired of having to chase people According to Bartok, though, it is pro­ resources he has." Government Association meeting on down." cessing traffic ticket and parking permit Bartok said that he has been trying to September 10. Since then, the Court has Rick Blanton, manager of student activi­ appeals that consumes the most time. increase those resources. He has made dropped to three active members and one ties, said he imagined Bartok would be frus­ Without an adequate amount of members, announcements at SGA meetings, made alternate. trated. the process takes much longer. announcements in classes, and asked the The Court is currently composed of "The court requires such effort and com­ "LaSt fall, I was getting a lot of comments Office of Equal Opportunity if they knew active members Steve Bartok, Trish Bevins, mitment on the part of the people who vol­ from Student Affairs that ticket-processing anyone who might be interested. I and Steve Hausladen, as well as alternate unteer to do it [and] there are so many traf­ was taking too long," Bartok said. "For the In spite of its lack of members, the Court member Chris Parks. fie ticket appeals that Court members are last several semesters, they have been on my will continue its work of processing ticket ~l "If we can get three people to sit down charged with processing. It's a thankless case. They almost shut down the Student and permit appeals. The next session will be tOgether, we're lucky," Bartok said. "We job." Court and hired someone to process tickets held at 1 p.m. tomorrow at 272 University have had a big problem with people who just The Student Court has many responsibil- as a paid employee." Center. The meeting is open to everyone. New mailroom head Welcome to Mercantile. • • hired after resignation ~~_~_~~~__ D_o~_~~~? __ ._ .___ . __ . _ Ringkamp said that as supe[\~sor he was S t a f fed ito r going to focus on making sure the mailroom UM-St. Louis has hired a new =""",=~ __ ~~-c----, runs properly and on getting mail room supervisor. mail sem and delivered. David Ringkamp was hired to "That's what people expect replace Beverly Bateman, who so that's what we're going to resigned Sept. 11. Bateman attrib- give them," Ringkamp said. uted her resignation to a lack of Ringkamp said he had not sufficient staffmg and a percep- encountered any problems tion of unwillingness on the part thus far. of the administration to listen to Schuster announced the her requests for more personnel. acquisition of the new super- Vice-chancellor for visor at Tuesday's senate Adminisrrative Services Reinhard meetin g. He also -:i'nnounced Schuster said he had not been Ringkamp the fo rmation of a new full aware that there was a problem time position to act as a back and that Bateman's resignation came as a sur­ up to the supervisor. prise to him. Emil Woolley, manager of custodial and The situation led to brief delays in mail general services, said the new position servIce. see M a i I, page 6 Faculty Council may call for debate on Arts Center facility would be answered at future meet­ .BY-..... .. ....BRIAN... ....DOUGLAS....................... staff editor ings of the budget and planning committee. At its next meeting, the Faculty Council Touhill expressed willingness to discuss the use of the proposed Center. Stephanie Platt/ The Current will consider the adoption of a resolution to John N. Hoover, stands in the Mercantile Library. foster campus-\\-ide debate about the pro­ "I think it's who's going to use the facil­ posed Performing Am Center. ity, how often are they going to use it, how .e. ..~ ...~ .. s..t:!.~.~. .': ... ~_CJ . CJ. K ........................................._ ...... _................... .................................................. _.... Dennis Judd, presiding officer of the can we work together to have it used as effi­ senior editor Faculty Council, said the resolution would cientlyas possible - things of that nature," The newly relocated Mercantile Library at UM-St. Louis has set its goal to be be considered for approval at the Council's Touhill said. as accessible as possible to the University community. _ .ov. 5 meeting. T ouhill said she would not consider The Mercantile Library, established in 1846, recently moycd from it's original Judd said that suppOrt for performing altering the design of the facility. location downtown at 510 Locust Street into a newly-renovated area of the am programs on campus and for a per­ Judd said that the debate would become Thomas Jefferson Library. forming arts center was not in question; he increasingly divisive if the administration John N. Hoover, director of the Mercantile Library and associate director, said the conflict arose over the proposed refused to compromise on the plan of the libraries, for special collections, said that the library'S mission has expanded as it Center's design. building. has "grown into" the affiliation with UM-St. LO'.lis. "The only meaningful process would be "Unless they're willing to put [the "Our goal when we've settled into' campus is to make these collections avail­ one that could change the scale and the design] on the table, the debate will hecome able, as we've always done, [but now] to the campus community," Hoover said. design of the building, because in the end, all more and more conflictual because the see Mercantile, page 6 the issues come down to that," Judd said. administration would in effect be saying we At Tuesday's senate meeting, Chancellor won't talk about the very things that you're Blanche Touhill said questions about the see Center, page 6 UMpresident decries high school dropout problem BY DAVID BAUGHER He cited a recently released report which noted that one­ plished and that great damage is done by lowering standards as senior editor third of aU Latinos fail to finish high school and that a response to stereotypical judgments," Pacheco said. 'Those UM System President Manuel Pacheco emphasized the Hispanics, who make up 56 percent of U . S. immigration of us in higher education who have witnessed this phenome­ importance of education in an address to a crowded J. c. account for 90 percent of immigrant dropouts. Pacheco said non over the last several years have seen that when the acade­ Penney Auditorium Friday night. that Hispanics dropped out of high school at a rate two-and­ mic bar is maintained and raised the demand for academic pro­ The address was the keynote to an evem celebrating a-half times that of African-Americans and three-and-a-half grams increases and the program attracts not only more stu­ Hispanic/ Latino Heritage Momh, which also included perfor­ times that of whites. dents but students who are more interested and who are bet­ mances of traditional Latin music and dance. Hispanic/Latino "The Hispanic dropout rate is higher than for any other. ter prepared to succeed." Heritage Month began in 1968 as a week-long observance. It major segment of the U. S. population and shows no sign of He suggested that high expectations combined with a solid was expanded to a full momh in 1988. improvement in recent years," Pacheco said. • suppOrt system would help alleviate the difficulties. Other events commemorating the month are in the works. Pacheco said that a combination of factOrs maybe to blame "If you don't proviue in the schools and in the colleges and A Hispanic/Latino film festival, "Inca: Secrets of the for the problem including a lack of teachers, substandard facil­ universities the support system that is needed for these Stu­ Ancestors" is scheduled for tOday in 126],C. Penney. On ities and unresponsive school bureaucracies.